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His Tongue is an Unruly Member by Leonard Ravenhill

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The content emphasizes the immense, often destructive, power of the human tongue and the necessity of spiritual control over speech for a life of righteousness and positive impact. It contrasts the incredible advancements of human intellect and technology with the persistent struggle to tame our words.

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and uh out of many wise things that he

said to me one of them was this that he

said I'm not sure I live to see this but

I think you live to see the time

when Christians from other countries

come back to America to teach us what

Christianity is

like and that day has

come one of the most acceptable men one

of the greatest preachers I know

again is an Indian not an East Indian

like our dear brother Bolan but uh a

very wonderful man by the name of B

Singh some any of you heard back sing

good didn't you really get moved when he

spoke he has a profound knowledge of the

word of

God uh we were in a large meeting

and uh the auditorium was so constructed

that they had these large chairs these

big wooden chairs um like Movie House

chur in know tip up

seat and he said before I speak we're

going to pray and we're going to pray

the Bible Way and he recited about 15 or

20 or maybe more scriptures where they all

all

melt and he said we cannot pray unless

we kneel and so everybody must kneel

down but it so happened that a lady that

we know was there and she weighed about

250 and she had a problem turning around

to kneel it was awful but getting up was

10 times

worse they just had to hold a meeting

till she got turned around out of those

chairs but he insists on

this and he is one of the most

remarkable men of faith that I

know setting off for England from India

before he flew he was going down the

street with a little atachi case about

this size and somebody said where are

you going and he said England oh when

are you going he said

is that all you take well it holds my

pajamas toothbrush shaving

kit and uh I can wash my shirt at

night that man is raised up over 350

churches and he just has as much money

did and around the world some of the

greatest men of the day

are men like this dear brother this

morning who I understand never went to Bible

Bible

School one of the great preachers in

America today was went to see Dr TOA

some years ago his girlfriend took him

along and she said I want you to meet my

pastor and Pastor I want you to meet my

boyfriend he's a

preacher and he said what Bible school

did you go to he said none he said

advantage and maybe it is in the days in

which we live and I have repeatedly said

and I was so glad that this brother uh

shared it it was my conviction that God

did not go off

production when he produced Wesley and

Finny and

Whitfield you know we've got such cocky

ideas of our success and a lot of it's

rubbish we're drawing the biggest crowds

in history nothing of the kind we've got

radio black top roads TV all the news

mediator media advertising and whatnot

do you know that joh was excited because

before he got

rolling two spirit fil Frenchmen were

drawing 30,000 men a night men and women a

night no black top

roads no motels to

sleep 22 years of age George Whitfield

was up in Boston the population of the

city was 12,000 he drew 14,000 a

night no black top roads nowhere to

feet men admitted that they took a horse

and rode with a wife on the horse and

then when the horse got tired that the

men got off and walked and walked up to

snow and a very famous American stood

one day and listened to George Whitfield

and he said I stood back I stood back

and he he figured how far he could hear

J Whitfield speak distinctly without any amplification

and Benjamin Franklin he was the person

said how amazed he was at the power of

that man to draw over 25,000 people

night I'm still sure Revival doesn't

cost one red

sent you don't boost

personalities God the Holy Ghost does the

the

job I'm glad this young fellow got quite

quite young only 29 mind that he's

learned the ways of

God isn't isn't greedy for publicity he

doesn't get excited if you thank

him doesn't walk around with a sense of

air and cup shortness that so many evangelists

evangelists

have I'm glad he's learned he's had it

rough I'll tell you that he wouldn't

tell you but he preaches a message that

not many churches one night after night

oh one night he's a novelty he's good he

stood us up but boy when you Hammer that

same nail night after night you know

what they do they show you the door and

give you a love

offering there's more love than offering

love you know the the the evangelism

we've had in the last two decades hasn't

done much for us God's going to raise

more men like this I'm absolutely sure of

this the spirit of the Lord is

discernably on

him and I think it's something very

Wonder very encouraging as far as I'm

concerned I understand he's coming to

our conference next week at earo where

that good brother there he's going to be

there and I'm going to be there so uh uh

I don't know I'll be happy enough to

preach let him do these two do the

preaching and I listen now maybe take

the offering for a

change I mean take it home not just collect

it now here's something you won't like

I've got a distinct advantage over the

previous preach this morning or any

other preacher maybe that's been on this

Camp since it began because I can not

only tell you what the text is I can

show you

it now you could do a lot better than I

can do but let me show you the text

is now you've got bigger ones and longer

ones and ones that do a lot more work

than mine maybe but that that's the

that's what James says I I I never

understood it why quite why but the very

famous preacher Martin Luther said that

the the Epistle of James is an Epistle of

straw I I I don't understand that

because I think that it's a very

practical epistle and it's a very painful

painful

epistle and you don't find many subjects

in the Bible that get a whole chapter

you see the uh space in the Bible is

very very precious and very very rare So

except in 1 Corinthians 13 where you

have 13 verses on the subject of

love and way the Revelation where you

have a chapter on

heaven and uh Romans chapter 7 where you

have a very

profound area where theologians break

lances with each other but there are

very few areas in the Bible where a

whole chapter is given to just one thing

and this is almost true of this subject

here the

tongue and we read from verse 5 in James

3 even so the tongue is a little member

and boasteth great things behold how

greater matter a little fire kindleth

and the tongue is a fire a word of

iniquity so is the tongue among our

members that it defileth the whole body

and Seth on fire the course of Nature

and is set on fire of hell

for every kind of beasts and of birds

and of serpents and of things in the sea

is tamed and hath been tamed of

mankind but the tongue can no man tame

it is an unruly evil

full of deadly poison therewith bless we

God even the father and therewith curse

We Men which are made out of the

similitude of God out of the same mouth

proceedeth blessing and cursing my

brethren these things ought not so to be

do the fountain sent forth at the same

time Sweet Water and bitter can the Fig

Tree my brethren bear Olive berries

either of Vine figs so can no Fountain

both yield salt water and

fresh who is a wise man and endued with

knowledge among you let him show out of good

good

conversation his works with

meekness of wisdom but if he are bitter

envying and strife in your hearts Glory

not line not against the

truth this wisdom descendeth not from

above but is Earthly sensual devilish

for where envying and strife is there is

confusion and every evil work but the

wisdom that is from above is first pure

then Peaceable gentle and easy to be

entreated full of mercy and good fruits without

without

partiality and without hypocrisy and the

fruit of righteousness is swn in peace

of them that make

peace so the tongue is an unruly member

contain I've often wondered what the

psalmist had in mind or what God had in

mind when he said through the psalmist

that our personality is an instrument of 10

strings I don't know what those 10

strings are I could just make a

suggestion that maybe

the 10 strings out our two feet our two

hands our two eyes our two

ears our one

tongue my mother had a a lot of

wonderful philosophy I don't know where

she got it but periodically she'd shoot

out a phrase

and one way to learn is by

repetition you can sit down and grind

over something but as you get older it

should be so so that you could by the

time you're my age or a little less than

that that you could recite without a hm

book at all at least 100 hymns because

the process of learning has

automatically put a Groove in the

mind and because of that we have

memorized certain

things my mother I say used to shoot out

these things and very often if I got

arguing with my sister my mother would

teeth and more than once I heard her say

to people now you know when you get

tongue you try not know she you try not

she says with your with your will but

teeth and you know very well that before

very long the tongue gets so active that uh

even very often in a home there's so

much disruption there's so much

dissension and all this of course is

manifested through this little

member I remember hearing a preacher

preach at least I read a sermon that he

had preached I don't know what was in it

except this title and he called the

tongue the red

Rebel and when I hear a song leader say

now come on everybody stand up we're

going to sing all for a thousand tongues

I mean if you had another 999 tongues

and you use it like you one you've got

house I think the tongue is almost the

nearest thing to perpetual

motion you couldn't use any other member

of your body like you use your tongue

you try it tomorrow every time you speak

while you speaking over the phone I hold

the phone like this and keep your arm

going like this and you won't talk 40

minutes to Mrs Smith at the other end of

town anymore and then as soon as that

phone has been uh you answer the phone

again and keep that hand going like that

or change it to the other and then when

you're talking to the children shouting

to them in the garden saying something

to your husband move your arms you know

what you'll do next morning you'll get

up and you have to say to your husband

could you lift this arm out of bed for

me because there's nothing that you have

that can

take the

power and take the beating that the

tongue takes every day

oh I'm glad people don't have a thousand

be I think of a man who one day was

being told off as we say by his wife and

his wife said to him it's no good

talking to you

anyhow I tell you anything it goes in at

one ear and out of the other he said

you're right I tell you anything it goes

in both ears and out of your

mouth and you think sometimes that this

is true isn't

it John Wesley said that the most

prevalent evil in the Church of God in

the day in which he lived was corrupt

communication which proceeded out of the

mouth and I don't know what it's like in

the law of America but in the law of

England the highest penalty that you can

get in the

slander and slander is not necessarily

saying something that wrong about

somebody if you knew a man or a woman

were living in adultery and you

communicated that that man could take

you up for slander even though it's true

you now we have a tremendous Paradox

here we're sh on one side the power of

man and one wonders what the uh well of

course the Holy Ghost wouldn't need to

elaborate but but here he shows us a

number of things he says that that man

is very

powerful you remember in the 8th Psalm

the psalmist says what is man that thou

art mindful of him thou has made him a

little L than the angel the true Hebrew

there is that man is made a little L

than God you sometimes think these days

he lives L than the Devil

Himself but what is

God uh you do things in America very

differently from the way we do them in

Europe for instance if if a man is

interested in a girl usually his idea at

least he used to be I haven't lived in

England for a number of years now but it

used to be that once he set his

affection on that girl he'd strive with

all that he had and he stack up money

and at least if he had to rent a

house he would be thought of a bum as

you say if he didn't have enough money

to furnish that house right through and

very often buy the house and furnish it

so the way we put it is this and in

cage he gets the bird but he gets the

cage first and then he puts the bird in

it but in America it seems he gets the

bird and then she has to help buy the

cage he sends her out to work to buy the

house she's going to live in and buy the

Furnishing now it may be smart but I'm

not sure it's really right and all the

ladies said

goes Customs are different but you know

universally wherever you go you discover

that there's a great problem in this

business of the tongue

now I say that this man here under

divine inspiration he shows us the the

power of man and he says there isn't a

beast roing the forest there isn't a

thing in the sea that man cannot take

and in one way or another he can subdue

that creature and make it servant but he

can't do that with a

tongue what amazing days we're living

in why I remember standing there at

Niagara Falls maybe you've been there

and I watched the water coming down on

the American side and then the great

horseshoe on the Canadian side and then

they they they've cut a channel it goes

deep down through the rock what have

they put there they put some great big

spindles there and then they get the

water to shoot down there and that water

dries those spindles in other words it

drives the

turbines and man has taken that Mighty

thing that used to make people terrified

and he's tied them up in it and he's

made the that great creation of God his

servant why the energy they produce

flashes a million lights over in Canada

energizes the Machinery it's good for

industry he's able to take nature he's

able to take the wind and harness the

wind to his wind we don't use it too

much these days except in certain

countries and even when the wind is

howling when it's ferocious they can

change the gears on those things and

they're still able to harness even

something in the nature of a almost a

tornado at least ferocious

winds and man can take these things and subdue

subdue them

them

just last night we were having a snack

there and talking with brother Bolan and

we were changing some views and so forth

and he said isn't it wonderful that

Madame gon the the the French

Mystic I think it was he we were talking

about her and I'm sure he said she

mentioned in one of the

hymns and this would be uh I guess more

than 200 years ago and she mentioned

atoms now we've just discovered

something of the part of the

atom you can put enough energy in a golf

ball and then put it in some other can

and you can drop it on a city and and

and blast a city vaporize a

city you can destroy a thousand years of

culture in less than 50 seconds in fact

there isn't a city in the world you

can't blast into shapeless Rubble in

less than 50

seconds maybe one of the great proud

cities of Europe that shelters some of

the great art Treasures in the museums and

and

whatnot and these things are Priceless

and they've been gathered over hundreds

and even sometimes almost thousands of

years and it a bomb drops and vaporizes

the whole

thing we're living in a day I've been

reading a book recently on

genetics just recently less than a week

ago one of the great universities in

America said that they had produced

life they they they' found the the

secret of

life this book that I bought was a $7

book edited by the science editor of

Life magazine SE and it's called a

second Genesis and it's worth reading

it's a very very interesting

book because it tells how you can

produce a race of people without without

marriage tells how they can take certain

seeds and plant them in other people and

uh other can conso the intellect and

soon you'll go to a catalog and say well

of course we're professional people we

don't have time to raise a family that

uh we would like a child and they say

well there's a woman lives up the road

there so many miles and she'd be very

happy to produce the child uh what kind

of a child and you go to a chart and say

well you want this color of skin and you

want that kind of IQ and you want male

or female and it goes right down the

list and it seems almost terrifying and

this man says it's wonderful

except that if you did get somebody as a

dictator he could so

that generation of

people because he said we're sensible

enough to know that only three things

that natural man requires one is

happiness the other is food and the

third is

comfort and so we'll build houses by the

Thousand by the state we'll furnish them

better than the average working man

could furnish them we'll give them nice

big TVs in every room we'll give them a

swimming pool before between so many

houses and men don't care after that

give them better food than they can buy

and they've got food and they've got

shelter and they' got creature comfort

and you can their intelligence so

you can make them a nation of Robos and

slaves and if you tell them to go fight

to war they'll go because they can't

think you can eliminate that section of their

their

minds science is coming up with some

Dreadful possibilities in the day in

which we live and since we put God over

the other side we're going to live to

see some terrible things in the day in

which we're

living the power of man is so great if

you told your grandpa years ago that the

be a heart transplant he would have

laughed at you if you told him that men

would walk on the moon he'd say you

better go and see somebody you're a lunatic

lunatic

yourself if you told him that you could

go to uh from New York to England in in

2 and a half hours he'd say that's

ridiculous he took Wesley 2 and a half

months to do it but last week the

Russians put the fastest plane the

fastest commercial plane in the world in

the air and it went at thir uh it went

at what

1,325 miles an

hour way ahead of anything either the

Concord plane of Britain or any plane

that there is in

America and these are frightening days

we're living in a shrinking world and an expanding

expanding

Universe if you lit a struck a match and

we went outside and you hold that match

up to the blazing sun what the light of

that match is to the blazing sun that

son is other two other sons that are

away there in

space the psalmist said when I consider

thy Heavens the work of thy fingers but

until a little over a century ago we

only had the names of about 22,000 stars

and and planets now we have the name of

about 20,000

galaxies and in those galaxies that are

multiplied millions and millions and

billions of

stars they're discovering at least

there's one area in which we have to

admit infinity and that is in space out

out out we go and to go to the Moon is

nothing it's our next door

neighbor sure we'll get somebody on the

planet I met a brother here last year

who asked me to go to his church just

outside of Dallas and one day there we

had lunch with a very brilliant young

chemist and uh he said well it's nice to

eat with you preachers today two or

three of us yesterday I had lunch with the

the

astronauts and he said we were

discussing various things and I said

well this was before the man got on the

moon will you get a man on the moon he

said oh that's no problem at all we got

that Sol the take off

too would he get a man on the planet he

said I think oh yes I think we'll do

that I don't think it's very serious

getting a man on the

planet what about getting a man on the

star but if you get a man on a star and

you use the same uh kind of Gadget that

we took the man to the Moon on instead

of getting there in 3 and 1/2 days he

get there in something like a thousand

years the nearest star is a thousand

years away from us traveling at the same

speed that they traveled out in going to the

moon now I don't know what you think but

I think his Tang may have run out before

he gets there his sandwiches might be

dry you see man is more inflated is

man his intellect is just waking up

George Bernard Shaw said that any man

should live till it's 300 years of age

he says I'm 80 and my brain is just

beginning to wake up I didn't think it

had wakened up then but that's his

opinion he thought it had so but the old

boy had died at about 84 or 85 years of

age and he said you see there's

something in me that's beginning to

expand that that I'm going to dry

up oh what a marvelous personality do

you and I have what a marvelous thing

is you were looking at a book list my

wife and I just a few days ago a new

book published by an American lady if I

remember right which is called the mind

of a child and one of the uh selling

points of the thing is that over in

Uganda and in quotes it said an un

civilized people the babies sit up at 7

months when they're months No 7 weeks

and they walk when they're 7

months and they have a better

orientation to life and any civilized

children in the

world and they can speak languages other

tribal languages in their infancy

because these people majored on raising their

their

families they give all their time and

their more than money more than their

Beast more than their possessions their children

everything I'm convinced that almost any

child normal child is almost a genius if

you only began to teach it at the right

things at the right time but we don't

have time to do that we we shove them

off to stupid TV and ask them to watch

some lunatics and Mickey Mouse and uh

Saturday morning isn't it good Saturday

morning that one after the other all the

comics come on you wonder why your child

such a comic why you stuffed it into him

why is he so stupid you stuffed it into to

him when you're there you laugh and when

you're not there they say isn't he like

his father but

uh the possibilities of human

fantastic we've just discovered what we

can do with certain

elements not long before Mr Roosevelt

died he brought the leading intellects

together they were in decied to come and

hear a discussion or really really hear a

lecture and when they came

along some of them are very very very

distressed to see that the lecturer was

a black man couldn't even walk very well

he shuffled his feet and he was

stupid Mr Roosevelt said this great

scientist is going to speak to and they

shuffled and turned up their noses till

he got

cracking then they were on the edge of

their seat

then listen to the man youve read his

life story some of

you and he told him about his

Secrets the problem was of course he'd

scientist they asked him about his

secrets well he took some shavings off

the floor of a factory and put them

together and made a block of marble and

submitted it to a geologist at the side

of a piece of marble cut out of the side

of the the

hill the scientist couldn't tell the one

from the other he said I I haven't a

clue which is the one from the side of

the hill and which is the one synthetically

made he said I get up one morning as I

always do at 4:00 and I go down into the

garden and I have a textbook could we

have the name of the textbook yes just a

minute they pulled out the give us the

name of the textbook he said the Bible

no I happen to be in contact with the

one that put everything in this universe

wherever he's hid it whatever he did

with it and one morning he said I got up

and said to the Lord now Lord you show

me how to get the yolk of an egg out of

two or three sweet potatoes and before

lunchtime he produced the yolk of an egg

potatoes he gave us more than

150 wonderful almost miraculous

peanut and the es were unable to accept

true this little colored man because he

had given himself over to the Lord and

because he waited on the Lord even in

the natural realm after all the heavens

and all the Earth is there it's the

workmanship of God and he put all the

secrets there and we're going to

discover more and more and more if we

discover a a a a remedy for cancer in my

judgment we'll get the uh remedy for

cancer out of herbs because after man

fell and diseases came God put herds

there and I believe that the answer not

not in uh these other things that we get

so much of these chemicals and so forth

but here is

man he's got a shrinking World he's

getting faster and faster he's going

higher and higher he's going deeper and

deeper not many Secrets left now in a

BOS sphere the Frenchmen went down just

a few weeks ago and then they explored

the Hall of the of the channel that we

call uh which is between bimy and of

course the United States of America we

call the Gul stream and he crawled on

the bottom of the ocean for Miles went

way way way way UPR right to the

Canadian Coast without surfacing had a

had a laboratory down there in the ocean

and made new films and discovered a new

world and so where do we go from here

man has conquered the world he's

conquered the air he's conquered the sea

he's conquered the forces of

nature but the greatest possession in

the world is not 2,000 acres of land the

greatest possession in the world is

self-possession and man is baffled by

the mystery of his own

personality the psychologists and the

other theologists are still puzzled

about the behavior

pattern because in a in in a in a given

situation they say that human human

nature is unpredictable and so it is

unpredictable apart from the grace of

God but not when the grace of God is

there now this amazing man James says

the the world around us can be

controlled it can be harnessed it can be

governed by the power of man his genius

this inborn gift that God has given to

him he's so like man he's made to be

created he's made to control and he's

done it very

well but then he says when he comes down

to this little member the tongue is an unruly

unruly

member I remember walking down the

street in a city where we did have a

touch of Revival 30 years

ago and sometimes when I hear people

praying that depression won't come to

the country I think they're praying

against Revival you very in fact I would

dare say this you never have had Revival

in history when the success and material

Prosperity Revival comes in a vacuum

Revival comes when everything's drying

on the vine Revival comes when Creature

Comforts die God drives us to

himself we had had a period of

depression in England in the 19 30s and

we went to a city in the north of England

England

there we were going down the street one

day there was a laboring man he was poorly

poorly

dressed and as two or three of us

evangelists came up he he suddenly did

this he put his hand up like this and he

said look I wanted to do can I do

anything for this and he pulled his

tongue out can I do anything I have a

blaspheming tongue I have a lying tongue

I have a tongue that exaggerates I have

we used to sing in Sunday school if I

remember right something like this angry

words or let them never from the tongue

and Bridal

slip with the Soul's best impulse ever

check them a they soil the

lip bitter words are quickly

spoken angry thoughts are rashly

stirred the fondest Links of Life are

broken by a single angry word

there have been

more there have been more fellowships

torn apart by gossip and slander and

criticism than by any other

thing there are more friendships being

SED there are more preachers against

each other because of Gossip than any

other thing that any other sin that you can

can

mention now I think the first thing to

say about the tongue is this that the

tongue is an

index your tongue will give you away and

the language of the New Testament thy

speech betrayeth thee who are you you go

to the north of England to north of

America with your nice Southern draw and

you say well well sure I'm from Boston

they'll say you're from where you're not

from Boston you're from Alabama or or

somewhere down there your speech between

you the tongue is an

index our second son is working with you

through the mission one of the finest

groups in America

and the leader of that is a man by the

name of Lauren

Cunningham he was almost a genius he's

loaded with degrees he's a man who lives

by faith and this year this summer while

he could be having 10 Crusades and all

he could be putting on a big show he is

one of the most gifted and abl preachers

that I know instead of that he has 50 he

has 50 groups working in 50 different

countries nearly all American young

people that sell automobiles or sell the

radios or sell the TVs in order to be

part they have to pay their own expenses

and that's how they prove part of the

sincerity and not too long ago he was

going to preach in a certain town he got

there a little late Saturday night he

was behind time and as he went down the

street he thought now I don't know which

way to

go and he saw a man coming out of a

church so he pulled over and hailed him

he said hi he said my name's Lauren

Cunningham I'm an evangelist he said oh

I'm so and so pastor of this church well

he said I'm trying to find a do you know

a brother s so oh yes sure yeah they've

got a service in their church tonight

yeah I'm supposed to speak

there um could you direct me from here

to to his church I I've never been

before oh yeah now go right down the

road here you'll see a big Presbyterian

Church turn right you go about three

blocks and on the left there's a Baptist

Church you turn turn left at the Baptist

Church you go a bit further down and oh

it must be a mile and a half and you'll

see a great big Methodist Church with a

spy well go right past that and the next

church with a great big spy is a Roman

Catholic Church you turn right there and

you just go down that street about half

a mile and you'll pass the Salvation

Army and then at the corner you'll see

another church at the other side it's a

Holiness Church turn left there and down

the street you'll find the church you want

well he said thank

you how is he going to keep all those

denominations or as the old lady said

Abomination straight in his

mind he was going to turn left at the

wrong church and right at the other one

but anyhow he went on and he got lost so

he thought oh boy I here and he pulled

into the gas station he said sir uh I'm

wanting an Assembly of God Church would

would you happen to know so and so he

say oh yeah he comes in here for gas oh

it's quite a away from here but he said

if you go down the street here there's a

Texico station turn right to the Texico

station and about a mile down there's a

there's a um uh what is it Koko station

I go past that and then on the left

there's a there's a standard station and

if you turn left at the standard station

and and go right and he mentioned about

four or five different gas stations and

my friend said well there you are you

see see where his interest is his tongue

gives him away the preacher could only

Direct D him by the churches the other

man directed him because of the gas

stations they were Rivals and

competitors but his tongue immediately

showed where his interest

was now your tongue and mine is an index

you get on a burst these days and you

hardly get sat down so he says what's the

the

score and you kind of figure him out be

a baseball

fan the tongue is an

index and this scripture makes it very

very clear you know you hear people say

well of course it's all right for her uh

I I don't think anything would ever

upset her she's not built like me I'm

fiery I I you know I really and then

afterwards I I kind of wish I could bite

my tongue and pull it back oh didn't Wy

say there are three things you can't

recall a sped Arrow wasted time and the

spoken word they won't come back if

you're as rich as

creases no

no the tongue is an index

and the scripture here says that you

can't get at the same time out of the

same Fountain salt water that way and

Sweet Water this way you say well I I I

you see when I get under pressure look I

think I he a brother spoke on this

yesterday the tense of this world cometh

and findeth nothing in me if there's no

bitterness in you it can't come out the

only reason you speak bitterly or

angrily or

selfishly or with uh you know somewh to

bring condemnation to somebody all the

tongue is an unruly

member and you heard people say very

often and I have well you know a rolling

stone gathers no M no it doesn't but a

rolling snowball

do you said a story often brother by the

time it's gone round one day you

couldn't recognize it by the next time

you hear

it and you can pray your head off without

without

Revival supposing there were a marriage

here this afternoon and the Bride Comes

in so sweet so charming and the flowers

are here and then suddenly somebody

comes in and brings a nice garbage cab

and puts it down at the side of the

bright wouldn't that be a lovely fitting

spectacle full of stinking fish and

garbage and oh it doesn't matter how

nice it is on the outside it's full of

corruption and you say well I thought

I'd bring you a little wedding present

and I brought you this bag of rubbish

but I'm afraid the analogy holds that

very very often we go to the house of

God and we start praying and not many

minutes before our lips were running

with garbage gossip criticism

exaggeration lying and all the other

things no good praying God won't hear

us I was crossing on a transcontinental

plane in Canada a few years train in in

Canada a few years

ago and each morning as I came out at

about 3 days on the train and nights and

enjoyed the scenery it was

fantastic and I noticed a fellow sitting

over the other side eating and he looked

at me occasionally and I looked at him

on the last morning he came over and he

said brother R are you brother Ravel

that's going to speak at Prairie Bible

Institute and I said yes sir and he said

well I'm Dr son so I said well I'm happy

to meet

you he said you know brother R I've just

had one of the most terrible experiences

I've ever had in my life I said oh in

your family no no I I I was at a

conference last week and he said

um they had two main speakers I was

giving the missionary message they had

two main speakers one from the Sunday

night to Wednesday and the other from

Thursday to the following Sunday night

and when we've been there a day or twoo

we were having a meal with the director

of the conference

know I wish you'd inform me as to who

was speaking because if I'd known that

uh so and so was coming on Thursday for

the balance of this I wouldn't be found

on the same platform do you know do you

know what do you know what there is in

his life there's this and this and this

and the slander about him and the

Scandal about him and it must be right

because I've heard it in two or three

different places and I don't want to be

identified with

him next time you invite me you tell me

who's going to speak and uh I'll be

coming he said he's not fit to handle the

Bible I know he's eloquent but if you

is he said the preacher just sweat and

said oh brother I can't cancel him now

we all he'll be in tonight

anyhow while the first evangelist was

finishing the message as he finished the

other evangelist came and sat at the

back and the Evangelist finish he said

well there you are now I've discharged

my obligation and I've given you the

words the lord gave me and and I've Just

Seen brother son so come in at the back

and I'm so glad to see him do you know

he's one of the finest evangelists in

America I only wish I could stay the

rest of the week and listen to him he's

a prince of preachers he's one of the

finest men I've ever met don't you miss

a meeting if you're going to miss any

part of the meeting don't miss the

meetings he's speaking he's just and he

heavily the director of the conference

went to the second evangelist and he

said um I'm glad you got here in time

and I'll run you to the

motel going to the motel he said you

know I was a bit shocked when I came in

and so so and so I didn't know he was

going to be the first preacher this

week and I think if you had heard all

the stories about him I've heard about

him during the last 3 weeks you wouldn't

have had him on the

platform he's not fit to preach

actually and he went down the line and

he really scandalized the

preacher so this brother said to me the

pre he the director said um could you

come to my

um office in the morning at 9: the

meeting doesn't start till 9:30 he said

I'd be happy to

come he called the other preacher and he

said could you be at my office in the

morning at 9:00 and he said I'd be happy

to come and when they got together he

said look he said you vilified this man

and made him the worst evangelist in the

country and last night he vilified you

and made you the worst in the country

and you said you wouldn't ever follow

him again and he said he wouldn't be on

the same platform with you and the pair

of you have just destroyed each other in

my mind and I'm going to do a simple

thing with you I'm going to leave you

here to straighten this out before God

and if you don't straighten it out

neither of you ever come on this platform

platform

again in half an hour he went back and

when he went back they were both weeping

with their arms around each other crying

and putting the things straight why

because they' scandalized each other too

much you know usually singers don't have

any trouble with preachers singers have

trouble with singers and preachers don't

have much trouble with singers preachers

have trouble with preachers Potter EnV Potter

oh it's really difficult but you know

when the heart is really filled with

love you you don't say well of course

you know I happen to know that he got

part of that message from so and so you

don't say that you rejoice in the fact

that this man has been able to rightly

divide the word of Truth and bring

inspiration and illumination where you

can do it if you're

tied because there's only one thing any

man has to do in the service of God and

that is find out what his gift is and

the word of God says a man's gift will

make room for him and years ago I ceased

trying to be a competitive preacher if a

man can preach me under the table

Hallelujah if he can see them better

than I can see them all right if I give

them cornbread and a bit of butterf and

if he can give them turkey and cranberry

sauce let him go

ahead I wanted to feed the Saints of the

most high

God but all the tongue is an unruly

member can get be oiled with bitterness and

and

Malice and

jealousy it's very easy to be in the

business of Destruction but it's not so

easy to be in the business of [Music]

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construction the tongue is an unruly

member every time you and I tell a story

somehow it gets enlarged doesn't it and

the parts we know that we can speak of

boy we put some pressure on have you

heard do you know they say what do they

say let them say there don't be a

participator in it many a man has been

assassinated some of us wouldn't have

the courage to go to a man and put a gun

on him but we've assassinated him with

our tongues we wouldn't stab him with a

with a knife but we stab behind his back

and we've criticized and we've resul and

we made it sour in somebody else's side

two the tongue is an unruly

member every time you and I tell a story

somehow it gets enlarged doesn't and the

parts you know that we can speak of boy

we put some pressure on have you heard

do you know they say what do they say

let them say now don't be a participator

in it many of man has been assassinated

some of us wouldn't have the courage to

go to a man and put a gun on him but

we've assassinated him with our tongues

we wouldn't stab him with a with a knife

but we stabed behind its back and we've

criticized and we've ruled and we made

oh what a little member the tongue is

but the word here says it's like the

little thing that the man throws out of

the window when he's going to a forest

and he says well it doesn't matter and

before long the whole Forest is burning

and you you you you you can't stop it

now and it didn't set on fire with a

bomb it set on fire with a

match that's all somebody takes a little

word sometimes and somebody enlarges on

that word and somebody exaggerates on

that and that brings us to another point doesn't

doesn't

it all this little tongue is full of deadly

deadly

poison and one of the great things if

you like to call it great that the

tongue is able to do it's so able to um

it you know like when I preach to a

Crowd Oh I'm sure there were 400 there

but the night after when Jo John

preached you know I don't think there

were 200 there I found that at least two

things that people can't estimate one is

the speed of an automobile and the other

is the numbers in a

congregation mind you by focals help if

you look this way it's 200 if you look

that way it's

four and uh so this really does help and

know how we exaggerate you know you know

the meeting I was in Oh Brother there

was such an anointing on it I mean there

wasn't much when the other guy preached

but boy when I pre all the anointing

there was on my message it was really

something and you know how many came to

the altar well I I couldn't say I would

think there were about 35 there were 15

at the most but he looked at them twice you

you

see and and it's amazing and and how

many people come to our Crusades and how

many people make decision well listen

I've got news for you God put every one

of those records down that you made and

he'll judge you by what you said no what

said I told you before I think about

being in a home in

Birmingham where a man was told a

certain lady was coming to their house

and he hitch the microphone Behind the

Chair she was going to sit in and she

talked for an hour and she criticized

everybody in the church and most of all

she criticize the

preacher and this woman was a known

gossip in the

church before she left this man said

you'll take coffee

and cakes before you go won't you and

she said no oh we don't have much time

we to go right across the city I want

you take coffee and cookies before you

go to bed yes well listen you stay here

and have them and you know I've got a

I've got a tape you haven't heard this

tape but I've got a tape and you know

Mrs Jones you are a bit of a gossip well

yes people say I do talk too much he

said I got the juiciest gossip you ever

heard in your life I'd like to pray a

record would would you listen while I

well well I suppose we could couldn't we

John and he said you know I turn it

unlike this I got like that I run in the

kitchen when he came back she was St

saying that is me it is me I I I said

that he must have had a it's me now Look

John you've got to give him $10 for that

thing you offer him $10 for that

tape and if you won't take it offering

50 offering but get it whatever you do

he came in with a coffee and S he said

well are you enjoying the tape she said

I'm not enjoying it you you just took

this tape tonight didn't you isn't this

did well I don't think that's fair I

guess look my husband will give you $10

for that tape no $10 wouldn't buy that thing

thing

15 no 15

20 no not

20 well what are we going add one copy

casage I will not take what am I going

to do what are you going to do with

it well another week it'll be Christmas

it would make a nice Christmas gift for

the pastor you wouldn't give that to the

pastor would

you I've criticized him and I criticized

the elders and uh oh please please what

what what can I give you for the tape

nothing will you give me it yes oh oh

you know I always thought you were a

nice tell I mean you've always been so

understanding and kind and I know you'd

like me to do that for you and I'm so

grateful oh thank you so much get that tape

tape

John John got the tape and stuffed it in the

the

bag she got second thoughts when she got

to the door she said

uh say that tape must have cost a bit

yeah I mean you had to buy and he

wouldn't take 10 or5 or $20 for

it uh uh

that you don't have a duplicate of it

deal I mean were you running another

tape as well

no oh I'm glad there's no duplicate I

didn't say that you did didn't he just

say there was no duplicate oh no no no

you asked me if I had a duplicate I

don't have a duplicate of

it well who's got a

what does a psalmist say my tongue is

writer oh out of our mouths we're going

to be judge the word of God says our

speech is going to be judged it's all

going to be exposed there The Angry

Words the bitter

words my father was a real oldfashioned

Hellfire preacher

a Layman preacher but he

preached and as good as he was and he

was a good man of prayer but you know

the most convincing person I ever met on

the level of Christianity as a child was

my mother because I never heard a

criticize anybody anywhere at any

time there was a Sweetness in the home

if she'd g off flying at the handle like

some folk I I'm afraid I might not have

been a Christian today she been bad

tempered and critical and spoken to the

husband as I've heard some people speak

even when we've been in in the H I don't

think I would have wanted to be a

Christian you can put a brid in the

mouth of a horse sure you can this is

what the word of God says but when it

comes to Bing our

speech oh that's an entirely different

thing the tongue is an unruly member out

of the same mouth proceed as blessing

isn't that isn't that terrible to think

that a man can preach eloquently and and

stir a Congregation of people and then

he can turn around and with

Builders to make a woman shrink and wish

to God she never even married him

there's a very famous Expositor and

every one of you preachers have his

books now he's in a certain famous

Church in this country a very large

church and noticed these books and I

said to the preacher did you I see you

have his books I like his expositions

he's great did you ever hear him hear

and I sent him to a church to a friend

of mine and he stayed in that hall for a

week and on the Wednesday night the

preacher said to him look sir you're a

world famous person and you're a

brilliant preacher but I want to tell

you something if you don't treat your

wife differently in the next 24 hours

from the way you've treated her

here if you speak with anger and

bitterness and

wrath I'll give you your money tomorrow

and I'll take you out of

town you're not going to speak the words

of the smooth and comforting here and

turn around with hatred and bitterness

bitterness

no oh the tongue is an unruly member and

alas it sends out until God has come and

his cleansing because this man goes on

to say cleanse your handes iners and our

hands are typical of our relationship

with the world that purify your hearts

as our brother mentioned earlier this

morning and the Hebrew word there in in

in the 51st chapter of Isaiah there are

two words a word for for for for cleansing

cleansing

is like washing a surface if you had

some dirt here and you wash the surface

but the Hebrew word for Purge is to take

something like this and drop it in a

solution so the solution can go through

this side and this side and Purge out

drive out as he quoted there from

11 now I'm not talking about stages in

Grace I don't care how you interpret it

as long as you get there and as long as

I get there but unquestionably the

worker of of of Salvation or at least

pardon nearly deals with my past record

and I need something more than a God who

can erase my past record I need a God

who can cleanse my heart from sin and ow

Me by his Divine

Spirit cleanse your hands ye Sinners

purify your hearts ye double-minded and

then we become single eyed the word of

God says and we become single in our

purpose and we to we become single in

infection I've heard more preachers in

the last two or three years say they're

on the verge of giving up because

they're tired of criticism and tired of

bitterness in the

period Africa was opened up not merely

to the gospel but to

trade by a brilliant little Scotsman not

very tall about as big as our wonderful

song leader here David Livingstone Dr

David Livingstone he married the

daughter of mfet the famous

missionary and when he went to explore

Africa they didn't have antibiotics and

the stuff the only about the only thing

they could carried was

quinine and he was going through an area

where there wasn't even a cow path they

cut their way through with

machetes you had to take a seant he had

to take a compass he had no Maps it was

Virgin Territory he didn't we the next

mile he dropped off into the sea and he

pushed his way through that area he got

bitten Fells packed up they couldn't

stand the strain of the of the pressure

of pushing

on and the way back home in Scotland was

his beautiful little wife Mary Moret now Mary

Mary

Livingstone a child had been born since he

left and she rode home and told him with

great Delight that the child had been born

born

I forget how many years he was out he

went home again and I if I remember

right a second child was

born and he got lost in the jungle he

got fascinated with his work he was

breaking open the continent he was

writing things

scientifically the one part of his Bible

that was worn I've seen the very Bible

there was at the 23rd psalm where his

soiled fingers because there were no

bathrooms around and he opened at the

Psalms like scotsmen do and feed on the Psalms

Psalms

he kept getting letters from his wife saying

saying

David I wish you'd either come home or

let me come out there you know the

people over here are saying he doesn't

care he's just been home a couple of

times and he's got a nice wife and they

have a couple of children but he hasn't

been home for years and you know it's

easy to live it up in

Africa you can do as you like and nobody

knows what you're doing how do you know

he doesn't have some wives amongst the Africans

Africans

women they began to raise a lot of

questions and she began to get tormented

mentally and one day she said David

you've got to do something I'm desperate

the Scandal is rising to high heaven here

here in

Scotland David sent a letter back to her

and he said Mary come as quickly as you

can I'll have someone meet you here and

I'll have someone meet you

there and Mary

went would you like to go into a bush

like that with your little babies you couldn't get milk you

babies you couldn't get milk you couldn't get anything you struggling

couldn't get anything you struggling with raw nature you're struggling with

with raw nature you're struggling with men who would as easily cut your head

men who would as easily cut your head off as they kill a

off as they kill a fly there are more hazards here now in

fly there are more hazards here now in every way physiologically

every way physiologically temperamentally psychologically

temperamentally psychologically spiritually not the right food not the

spiritually not the right food not the right things for the children no clean

right things for the children no clean water drinking from anything you could

water drinking from anything you could get

get City before long she got bitten with

City before long she got bitten with something maybe a malarial mosquito I

something maybe a malarial mosquito I don't know and she took

don't know and she took sick she recovered that one of the

sick she recovered that one of the children got sick and was and died and

children got sick and was and died and had to be

had to be buried then another the other child if I

buried then another the other child if I remember right got sick and that child

remember right got sick and that child died the grief was a lot to Bear out

died the grief was a lot to Bear out there and then Lo behold Mary got

there and then Lo behold Mary got sick and she

sick and she Di and David went out to the forest

Di and David went out to the forest where they buried the other two babes

where they buried the other two babes and they scratched a hole in the ground

and they scratched a hole in the ground and they lowed her in the ground and

and they lowed her in the ground and before he threw the dirt in he said

before he threw the dirt in he said through his tears Mary Mary I suppose

through his tears Mary Mary I suppose that history may say that you came out

that history may say that you came out here to see me and you were killed by

here to see me and you were killed by malaria or you were killed by uh some

malaria or you were killed by uh some infection that you got but Mary you not

infection that you got but Mary you not killed by any of those things you were

killed by any of those things you were killed by the gossiping tongues of

killed by the gossiping tongues of people away that in the

churches because it pulls people down it clothes people with beauty all it tries

clothes people with beauty all it tries to distort

to distort them and paint them as ugly as ever we

them and paint them as ugly as ever we can paint them the tongue is an

can paint them the tongue is an infection but oh what a difference when

infection but oh what a difference when the tongue is really illuminated and

the tongue is really illuminated and controlled by the spirit of God then you

controlled by the spirit of God then you can sing as Isaac quad said all for a

can sing as Isaac quad said all for a thousand tongues to sing my great

thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer pray you think of the the

Redeemer pray you think of the the tongues of N and Ed by the spirit of God

tongues of N and Ed by the spirit of God that have moved whole congregations of

that have moved whole congregations of people men that have wrden in the secret

people men that have wrden in the secret place of the most high and then they've

place of the most high and then they've come out and when they've come out

come out and when they've come out they've come out charged with the spirit

they've come out charged with the spirit of God again you take a young man in his

of God again you take a young man in his early 20s one of the greatest men that

early 20s one of the greatest men that ever lived in my judgment as a preacher

ever lived in my judgment as a preacher George

George Whitfield all the power by which he

Whitfield all the power by which he spoke one night he told that

spoke one night he told that congregation I I I I have received the

congregation I I I I have received the anointing of the Lord and he said I'm

anointing of the Lord and he said I'm going to shoot all the arrows my quiver

going to shoot all the arrows my quiver is full of arrows and I'm going to shoot

is full of arrows and I'm going to shoot the arrows of the Lord into the hearts

the arrows of the Lord into the hearts of all of you and here and he he he

of all of you and here and he he he pretending to put an arrow and he said

pretending to put an arrow and he said Here Comes the first Arrow of conviction

Here Comes the first Arrow of conviction and there it goes and all the

and there it goes and all the congregation duck

congregation duck down he described the man who had been

down he described the man who had been refusing the spirit of God getting

refusing the spirit of God getting nearer and nearer and nearer to the

nearer and nearer and nearer to the abyss and Lord Chesterfield had come in

abyss and Lord Chesterfield had come in the meeting

the meeting when Whitfield saw him come in and this

when Whitfield saw him come in and this has happened very often with preachers

has happened very often with preachers when somebody's come in and they've been

when somebody's come in and they've been a bit sleepy suddenly how they they get

a bit sleepy suddenly how they they get galvanized and somebody said did you see

galvanized and somebody said did you see see the change on Whitfield when when

see the change on Whitfield when when Lord Chesterfield came

Lord Chesterfield came in and Whitfield preached as he did

in and Whitfield preached as he did preach they said when he preached on

preach they said when he preached on Heaven you'd think he'd been there for a

Heaven you'd think he'd been there for a week they said when he preached on hell

week they said when he preached on hell you could smell the brimson before he

you could smell the brimson before he ever gave out his

ever gave out his text he described this man refusing the

text he described this man refusing the claims of God and going further and

claims of God and going further and further nearer and nearer to the edge of

further nearer and nearer to the edge of the

the Abyss he said he's only got about two

Abyss he said he's only got about two more steps to take he spoke for a minute

more steps to take he spoke for a minute and suddenly Chesterfield jumped up Lord

and suddenly Chesterfield jumped up Lord Chester you dignified

Chester you dignified Aristocrat he said Windfield is

Aristocrat he said Windfield is gone withfield said not yet not

gone withfield said not yet not yet the Harvest isn't passed for him yet

yet the Harvest isn't passed for him yet the summer isn't ending he still might

the summer isn't ending he still might be saved

oh the Bible doesn't estimate the power of speech they said of Jesus didn't

of speech they said of Jesus didn't they but this man's words they were not

they but this man's words they were not like the words of ordinary men whence

like the words of ordinary men whence have this man wisdom having never

have this man wisdom having never learned doesn't Paul say on one occasion

learned doesn't Paul say on one occasion he says let your speech be always with

he says let your speech be always with Grace seasoned with

Grace seasoned with salt my mother used to say sometimes now

salt my mother used to say sometimes now you sit down and don't say say another

you sit down and don't say say another word think what twice before you speak

word think what twice before you speak one and I thought that was good advice

one and I thought that was good advice speak twice before you speak once think

speak twice before you speak once think twice before you speak once but I

twice before you speak once but I discovered if you think three times you

discovered if you think three times you may not speak at all

even oh it's going to be an embarrassing thing when we stand at the Judgment seat

thing when we stand at the Judgment seat I am amazed and I I'll tell you this

I am amazed and I I'll tell you this behind the seat I'm amazed that some of

behind the seat I'm amazed that some of the conversation even of

preachers a very famous preacher in this country

country I wouldn't tell you his name if you gave

I wouldn't tell you his name if you gave me $10,000 and I mean that because I

me $10,000 and I mean that because I don't want to slander

don't want to slander him but I know not very long before he

him but I know not very long before he swayed a great congregation he was

swayed a great congregation he was sitting in the in in in the church with

sitting in the in in in the church with a bunch of preachers and others and he

a bunch of preachers and others and he told the dirtiest jokes they said they'd

told the dirtiest jokes they said they'd ever heard even before they were

saved I traveled down the turnpike in Pennsylvania with world famous

Pennsylvania with world famous personalities a book was written about

personalities a book was written about one and the other has written a whole

one and the other has written a whole stack of books and every one of you know

stack of books and every one of you know his name

his name we haven't been in that car 5 minutes

we haven't been in that car 5 minutes before they told the dirtiest sex

before they told the dirtiest sex stories I've ever heard and I was

stories I've ever heard and I was embarrassed and humiliated and if I

embarrassed and humiliated and if I could have done it though we were on the

could have done it though we were on the Pike if I could have gotten out and

Pike if I could have gotten out and walked on that Turnpike brother I would

walked on that Turnpike brother I would have done

it oh the tongue is an unruly member the lips are defile gossip slander

lips are defile gossip slander bitterness Strife enly they all come out

bitterness Strife enly they all come out through the tongue

but all when the tongue has been tamed by the spirit of God when the heart has

by the spirit of God when the heart has been made pure the the fountain isn't

been made pure the the fountain isn't sending bitter ones words out one minute

sending bitter ones words out one minute and sweet words out the other we're not

and sweet words out the other we're not dragging some brother down in the dust

dragging some brother down in the dust and then say okay let's all stand up and

and then say okay let's all stand up and praise him and magnify his you can't do

praise him and magnify his you can't do it those lips are too unclean they're

it those lips are too unclean they're too stained they're too sorted the

too stained they're too sorted the tongue is an unruly member full of

tongue is an unruly member full of deadly evil he cannot be controlled of

deadly evil he cannot be controlled of man he can set on fire is set on fire by

man he can set on fire is set on fire by the very nature of

the very nature of hell I noticed in the news this morning

hell I noticed in the news this morning a big upset in the political battle in

a big upset in the political battle in England the prediction was of course the

England the prediction was of course the labor party would go in and Mr Wilson

labor party would go in and Mr Wilson would be have an unprecedented place in

would be have an unprecedented place in history he would be the first prime

history he would be the first prime minister to take a third consecutive run

minister to take a third consecutive run of four years and all the polls with the

of four years and all the polls with the exception of one and it didn't vote

exception of one and it didn't vote against him it said it didn't know but

against him it said it didn't know but all the polls said it would be a

all the polls said it would be a landslide victory for labor instead of

landslide victory for labor instead of that the conservatives got

that the conservatives got in some years ago we had a very eloquent

in some years ago we had a very eloquent fellow in

fellow in England he was really a man that carried

England he was really a man that carried conviction and he was

conviction and he was fearless and he began stomping around

fearless and he began stomping around the country and wherever he went if

the country and wherever he went if there were three other political

there were three other political speakers he would have more listening to

speakers he would have more listening to him than all the others put

him than all the others put together and they criticized him in the

together and they criticized him in the press they drew cartoons of him in the

press they drew cartoons of him in the Press they ridiculed him they

Press they ridiculed him they exaggerated everything they could about

exaggerated everything they could about him and what happened the crowds got

him and what happened the crowds got bigger bigger the more they fought the

bigger bigger the more they fought the bigger the crowds

bigger the crowds got one day they called the Warlords

got one day they called the Warlords together in the in the press and they

together in the in the press and they said now what are we going to do about

said now what are we going to do about this fell he's just going to sweep the

this fell he's just going to sweep the country the more we criticize him he

country the more we criticize him he turns it back on us the more we ridicule

turns it back on us the more we ridicule him the crowds go

him the crowds go greater what are we going to do he

greater what are we going to do he doesn't have the money of the other man

doesn't have the money of the other man but money is just scoring the county

but money is just scoring the county what should we

do any suggestions well was silence for a

suggestions well was silence for a little

little while I've got a suggestion sir

while I've got a suggestion sir what he said let not one of us report a

what he said let not one of us report a thing he does for the next two

thing he does for the next two weeks do you know by the of the next two

weeks do you know by the of the next two weeks he was politically bankrupt nobody

weeks he was politically bankrupt nobody was going to him why because nobody was

was going to him why because nobody was criticizing him and gossiping about

him you can be sure about this the man that talks to you about others will talk

that talks to you about others will talk to others about you and so it should

be we're going to have to have a cleanup in this area in the work of

in this area in the work of God we're going to have to say with a

God we're going to have to say with a ssist set a watch at the door of my lips

not long ago and I finished with this I was preaching with a certain fellow and

was preaching with a certain fellow and he pointed out these Maj you think well

he pointed out these Maj you think well he listed so many I couldn't remember

he listed so many I couldn't remember them I don't have a memory like like

them I don't have a memory like like that and I thought to myself now how

that and I thought to myself now how these people most of them not trained we

these people most of them not trained we are supposed to be trained to

are supposed to be trained to memorize and somebody said to a preacher

memorize and somebody said to a preacher that got lost in his notes if you can't

that got lost in his notes if you can't remember to preach it how do you think I

remember to preach it how do you think I can remember to live it well logic can

can remember to live it well logic can be cruel sometimes

but what was I going to say there I forgot

forgot now

I oh thank you yes the preacher making a catalog thank you so much and uh the

catalog thank you so much and uh the preacher made this L and I thought to

preacher made this L and I thought to myself now how are these people going to

myself now how are these people going to memorize this don't do this be careful

memorize this don't do this be careful of this you mustn't do that something

of this you mustn't do that something else and suddenly I realized it wasn't a

else and suddenly I realized it wasn't a case of me putting a new Ten

case of me putting a new Ten Commandments in my mind or something

Commandments in my mind or something else it's a case of this when the Holy

else it's a case of this when the Holy Spirit really comes to abide in the

Spirit really comes to abide in the heart he does well amongst other things

heart he does well amongst other things two things he constrains us and he

two things he constrains us and he restrains us and as I said last night

restrains us and as I said last night the old Quakers used to talk about an

the old Quakers used to talk about an authentic stop in the

authentic stop in the spirit if you to say to me where are you

spirit if you to say to me where are you going I say well I'm going with this

going I say well I'm going with this good brother next week to OS somewhere

good brother next week to OS somewhere up in the hills I don't know where it is

up in the hills I don't know where it is yet but I'll find it tomorrow I hope

yet but I'll find it tomorrow I hope and then from there we expect to go way

and then from there we expect to go way out west to California and then from

out west to California and then from there I uh we go up to Vancouver and

there I uh we go up to Vancouver and then for Vancouver across the trans

then for Vancouver across the trans Canadian Highway down north of

Canadian Highway down north of Pittsburgh to Dusty roads conference at

Pittsburgh to Dusty roads conference at Mara and then down here somewhere to

Mara and then down here somewhere to laal in

laal in Mississippi now as far as I know that's

Mississippi now as far as I know that's where I'm going and if you had met Paul

where I'm going and if you had met Paul on a certain Road and said hello Paul

on a certain Road and said hello Paul how are you says the fire still burning

how are you says the fire still burning man I just had a revelation from God you

man I just had a revelation from God you know what I'm

know what I'm going well I'm going into what the

going well I'm going into what the theologians Now call the north Galan

theologians Now call the north Galan Theory I'm going to a place God beinia

Theory I'm going to a place God beinia and you know what I I feel real prayed

and you know what I I feel real prayed up on me I believe we're going to have a

up on me I believe we're going to have a holy ghost Revival we're going to have a

holy ghost Revival we're going to have a Bible

Bible Revival do you know why we don't have

Revival do you know why we don't have Revival because we don't go the Bible

Revival because we don't go the Bible Way about

Way about it I hear fellows say they preach the

it I hear fellows say they preach the gospel I like to check on most of them

gospel I like to check on most of them and they could check on me too I'll tell

and they could check on me too I'll tell you to find where to preach the gospel

you to find where to preach the gospel read the first three first four verses

read the first three first four verses in the second chapter of Hebrews you

in the second chapter of Hebrews you know what it says about the

know what it says about the gospel and remember the epistle to the

gospel and remember the epistle to the Hebrews doesn't have one word to the

Hebrews doesn't have one word to the unsaved not one you say well it says

unsaved not one you say well it says there at the beginning of the second

there at the beginning of the second chapter how shall we escape yes we we

chapter how shall we escape yes we we Believers how shall we escape if we can

Believers how shall we escape if we can if we neglect so great salvation and

if we neglect so great salvation and then it goes on to tell you what that

then it goes on to tell you what that salvation is doesn't it signs and

salvation is doesn't it signs and wonders and diverse miracles of the Holy

wonders and diverse miracles of the Holy Ghost that's a gohost for anything less

Ghost that's a gohost for anything less isn't it's merely advice and lectures on

isn't it's merely advice and lectures on a Christ who died and

a Christ who died and Rose I'm going to bethia oh I'm excited

Rose I'm going to bethia oh I'm excited about it I I I believe God's going to

about it I I I believe God's going to pour out his spirit and write a new

pour out his spirit and write a new chapter there and when he got halfway to

chapter there and when he got halfway to bethia the Holy Ghost said stop turn

bethia the Holy Ghost said stop turn left and go down to the coast and he got

left and go down to the coast and he got to the coast and had a vision of

to the coast and had a vision of Macedonia and it was there he broke into

Macedonia and it was there he broke into Europe

Europe don't you think he might have been

don't you think he might have been embarrassed when he saw somebody and

embarrassed when he saw somebody and said you told me you were going to

said you told me you were going to bethia you lied about it no he didn't

bethia you lied about it no he didn't lie at

lie at all he made a

all he made a mistake as far as he knew then the

mistake as far as he knew then the revealed will of God he was going but no

revealed will of God he was going but no no no no the spirit says no you stop

no no no the spirit says no you stop right here oh it really is wonderful to

right here oh it really is wonderful to be led the sons of God are led by the

be led the sons of God are led by the spirit of God and sometimes he does some

spirit of God and sometimes he does some things that are pretty

things that are pretty embarrassing now I'm not disagreeing

embarrassing now I'm not disagreeing with you do as you like do as you led

with you do as you like do as you led somebody said to me not long ago I tried

somebody said to me not long ago I tried to get songs so to my church and you

to get songs so to my church and you know he he hasn't got an open bed till

know he he hasn't got an open bed till 1975 isn't that something I said I don't

1975 isn't that something I said I don't know 4ia don't know he books right till

know 4ia don't know he books right till 1975 5 years

1975 5 years ahead I said brother I don't even know

ahead I said brother I don't even know sometimes what the Holy Ghost want five

sometimes what the Holy Ghost want five days ahead years ago I used to get my

days ahead years ago I used to get my calendar and fill it up and ooh the big

calendar and fill it up and ooh the big churches and foreign countries and over

churches and foreign countries and over here and preaching at that conference

here and preaching at that conference and these brilliant personal oh W this

and these brilliant personal oh W this is wonderful got to realize there's not

is wonderful got to realize there's not much to it really I very very selom even

much to it really I very very selom even make a date

make a date ahead

ahead occasionally I might make one in a year

occasionally I might make one in a year or two in a year I don't think I'll

or two in a year I don't think I'll preach more than about four times this

preach more than about four times this year

year anyhow I think I preached more than four

anyhow I think I preached more than four or five last year and I came to this

or five last year and I came to this place I won't come next June

it was my birthday yesterday and while I remember thank you some people sent me

remember thank you some people sent me cards and some people gave me um a book

cards and some people gave me um a book and I appreciate them very

and I appreciate them very much but I don't want you to be start

much but I don't want you to be start saving up for a present for next year

saving up for a present for next year because I won't be here I I already a

because I won't be here I I already a commitment in Canada to go through a

commitment in Canada to go through a certain number of churches there where

certain number of churches there where there you really have prayer warriors

there you really have prayer warriors who are seeking God's face in Revival

who are seeking God's face in Revival I'll promise you one thing Jimmy I'll be

I'll promise you one thing Jimmy I'll be here every day in spirit I think I come

here every day in spirit I think I come to this little campus every day of my

to this little campus every day of my life I don't think it's every day I miss

life I don't think it's every day I miss praying for

praying for it I don't always know what the Lord

wants and I finish with this I got a letter from a brother in India a man I

letter from a brother in India a man I esteem highly in the Lord and he said

esteem highly in the Lord and he said you know we we have real meetings out

you know we we have real meetings out here

here thousands thousands of

thousands thousands of people and I I feel it on my heart to

people and I I feel it on my heart to say I I believe the Lord wants you here

say I I believe the Lord wants you here in the New Year this was this last New

in the New Year this was this last New Year the Lord wants you out here you'll

Year the Lord wants you out here you'll have a great ministry thousands will

have a great ministry thousands will listen and they stay on the campus and

listen and they stay on the campus and and and the meetings last four or five

and and the meetings last four or five hours which suit me as you would

hours which suit me as you would imagine and I thought well that's nice I

imagine and I thought well that's nice I better pray about it and then I got a

better pray about it and then I got a letter from Africa and this man said

letter from Africa and this man said we'd like you to come and do a tour of

we'd like you to come and do a tour of Africa for about a year and and

Africa for about a year and and everything will be taken care of and

everything will be taken care of and you'll get to Great conferences and

you'll get to Great conferences and you'll see some of the country now both

you'll see some of the country now both those men were certain that the Lord

those men were certain that the Lord wanted me in their country I was wasn't

wanted me in their country I was wasn't certain about any and I didn't go to any

certain about any and I didn't go to any of them either I'm not saying that to

of them either I'm not saying that to show I'm in demand forget that that's

show I'm in demand forget that that's nothing at all I don't think that's got

nothing at all I don't think that's got all to do with the business at

all to do with the business at all the Evangelist the man of God the

all the Evangelist the man of God the housewife even can know that gentle

housewife even can know that gentle leading of the spirit of God when all is

leading of the spirit of God when all is clear when my conversation is an

clear when my conversation is an edifying conversation when I spend more

edifying conversation when I spend more time in prayer and not doing

time in prayer and not doing criticism when you're in a a group of

criticism when you're in a a group of people and somebody says well did you

people and somebody says well did you hear

hear well I well I heard this well do you

well I well I heard this well do you know that and did you imagine that you

know that and did you imagine that you know about his wife and you've got the

know about his wife and you've got the thing that could really put the crowding

thing that could really put the crowding thing on top you know youve got you've

thing on top you know youve got you've got the hardest bitterest dirtiest thing

got the hardest bitterest dirtiest thing about him and you think no they think

about him and you think no they think they've said something wait till I drop

they've said something wait till I drop this H and then you suddenly say

this H and then you suddenly say supposing we were in the other position

supposing we were in the other position I wouldn't want him to criticize and

I wouldn't want him to criticize and gossip and slander me like

gossip and slander me like that ah may God help us to set to watch

that ah may God help us to set to watch at the door of our lips may it be true

at the door of our lips may it be true of us that our speech is always with

of us that our speech is always with Grace seasoned with

Grace seasoned with salt may people welcome us because our

salt may people welcome us because our conversation is always

conversation is always edifying and it leads to Holiness of

edifying and it leads to Holiness of life and I pray you mothers in the home

life and I pray you mothers in the home will have got that touch from God in the

will have got that touch from God in the morning so that when those upsetting

morning so that when those upsetting things come you don't shoot something

things come you don't shoot something out like a rifle shot and tell them to

out like a rifle shot and tell them to get out and do this that and the other

get out and do this that and the other the famous preacher shell said one

the famous preacher shell said one day when he stood at the gravide of his

day when he stood at the gravide of his beautiful daughter his eldest daughter

beautiful daughter his eldest daughter she was a darling girl and she had a

she was a darling girl and she had a habit of coming to him and very often

habit of coming to him and very often when he was studying he'd say you go out

when he was studying he'd say you go out I have no time and he shut the

I have no time and he shut the door and he said when I saw her in a

door and he said when I saw her in a casket I said oh darling I'd give you a

casket I said oh darling I'd give you a whole hour if you were back

whole hour if you were back today sometimes it's too

today sometimes it's too late who is a spirit control man

late who is a spirit control man oh woman the one that brid with his

oh woman the one that brid with his tongue don't take my word for it take

tongue don't take my word for it take the word of James in this epistle

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